Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of February 21; Updates from Object First, Privacera, VAST Data & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of February 21, 2025.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy storage and data protection news items.
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Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of February 21, 2025
Backblaze Partners with Kandji
Backblaze and Kandji’s solutions have already proven their value in Apple-focused IT environments. Companies like Foojee, a managed IT provider specializing in Apple devices, rely on Kandji to deploy and manage those devices and Backblaze to protect their data.
DDN Announces Infinia 2.0 Object Storage Platform
DDN has announced the Infinia 2.0 object store for AI training and inference, making big claims for up to 100x improvement in AI data acceleration and 10x gain in datacenter and cloud cost efficiency. Infinia is an object storage system designed from the ground up with a key-value-based foundation.
Fortanix Releases 2025 GenAI Data Security Report
Of those surveyed, 97 percent said their company plans to either buy or build a GenAI solution to automate business processes or create new revenue streams. At the same time, 87 percent of security executives reported a breach in the past 12 months. Organizations must ultimately secure data across multiple owners, applications, environments, and geographies.
JetStor Launches New JetProtect Offering
JetProtect offers advanced coverage options, proactive maintenance, and strategic lifecycle management to help businesses mitigate downtime risk and streamline operational costs. By delivering priority support and regular health assessments, JetProtect ensures that JetStor systems deliver optimal performance throughout their extended service life.
Privacera Updates its AI Governance Platform
These additions align PAIG to the existing National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework, offering a comprehensive, structured approach designed to improve trustworthiness in AI technologies while promoting innovation and mitigating risks.
StorMagic and Supermicro Announce Expanded Server Options
Introduced in 2024, StorMagic SvHCI is a full-stack HCI software solution designed for the enterprise edge, ROBOs and SMBs. SvHCI combines the virtualized storage capabilities of SvSAN with a StorMagic hypervisor, virtualized networking and management components. SvHCI can be deployed on a single server, or on two servers to enable high availability and eliminate downtime.
Quest Software Announces New Ransomware Recovery Features
Quest is redefining ITDR and disaster recovery standards by moving beyond detection and alerts, ensuring organizations can respond, disrupt, and recover faster than ever before. Security Guardian Shields Up allows customers to temporarily freeze all changes to Tier 0 objects, disrupting attacks against Active Directory that involve lateral movement and persistence.
VAST Data Adds Block Access to Existing File & Object Protocol Support
The system already supports real-time notification of data change events to external Kafka clusters. Now, it has its own Kafka event broker, added to the DataEngine, to receive, store, and distribute such events.
Expert Insights Section
Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.
Future of Work: Results from the 2025 Survey of Tech Professionals – Exclusively on Insight Jam
In a survey announced last month co-developed by Skillify, Solutions Review, and Insight Jam, over 200 tech professionals, including senior leaders in areas like cybersecurity, information management, and data science, have underscored the escalating importance of soft skills during this AI moment.
February 21: The Jam Session – Why Enterprises are Abandoning the Public Cloud Featuring SR Experts @ Insight Jam Robert Eve and Philip Rusom, Ph.D.
In this month’s Jam Session, the panel discusses the growing trend of workload repatriation among enterprises. They’ll address questions like what factors are driving cloud repatriation, how do you decide what to repatriate, what does it take to repatriate an application or workload, and what can you do to avoid the cost and hassle of repatriation?
What to Expect at Solutions Review‘s Spotlight with Object First & Enterprise Strategy Group on March 13
According to ESG research 81 percent of businesses agree immutable backup storage is the best defense against ransomware. However, not all backup storage solutions can deliver full immutability and enable the quick and complete recovery that is essential for ransomware resilience. With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading Veeam storage provider Object First.
What to Expect at Solutions Review‘s Spotlight with Concentric AI & Enterprise Strategy Group on February 27
With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading data security governance platform provider Concentric AI to provide viewers with a unique webinar called Modern Data Security Governance in the Generative AI Era.
Insight Jam Panel Highlights: Best Practices for Keeping AI Data Systems Compliant
Our expert panel discusses best practices for maintaining AI data system compliance amid evolving regulations. The experts explore automated compliance tools, data classification strategies, and the importance of comprehensive security measures while emphasizing that compliance requires both technical solutions and proper implementation.
Insight Jam Panel Highlights: How Can AI Help Organizations Adapt to New Regulations?
Our expert panel explores how AI can help organizations handle regulatory compliance, particularly in data privacy and security. Experts discuss using AI for document interpretation, data discovery, and regulatory monitoring, while highlighting the importance of knowledge graphs and historical data in building comprehensive compliance solutions.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.
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